Conference Presentations:
2023 Uskonnosta luopuminen ja kieli. Sosiologipäivät, Tampere.
2022 Uskonnosta luopuminen ja kieli. Uskonnontutkimuksen päivät, Helsinki.
2019 Freedom of Choosing to Leave Religion? Research on Apostasy, Leaving Religion. European Association for the Study of Religion, Tarto, Estonia.
2019 Constructing a Sacred Landscape of Memories in Pilgrimage. European Association for the Study of Religion, Tarto, Estonia.
2016 Apostasy: Personal Experience and Failure of Religion. Nordic Conference for the Sociology of Religion, Helsinki, Finland.
2016 Types of Apostates: Categorizing Leavers. European Association for the Study of Religion, Helsinki, Finland.
2015 Leaving Family Religion: Apostasy from Pentecostalism in Finland. International Association for the Study of Religions, Efrurt, Germany.
2014 Public of Private Body? Control and apostasy in the Finnish Pentecostal Movement. Christianity and the Limits of Materiality -Conference, Turku, Finland.
2014 An American Religion? Connections and Divides in Defining the Origins of Pentecostalism. Bridging North America: Connections and Divides. John Morton Center for North American Studies Conference, Turku, Finland
2014 Social Apostasy – Logics and social consequences of leaving Finnish Pentecostal community. Nordic Conference for the Sociology of Religion, Copenhagen, Denmark.
2014 Conversion and Social Class in Finnish Pentecostal Movement. Pentecostalism around the Baltic Sea Conference, Turku, Finland.
2014 Managing One’s Spiritual Senses in Public: Traditional and Postmodern Experiences in Finnish Pentecostalism. EASR Conference, Groningen, Netherlands.
2013 Migrations, Transformations and Tradition in the Finnish Pentecostal Movement. EASR Conference, Liverpool, UK.
2013 Different roles of Immigrants in Finnish Pentecostalism. ISSR/SISR Conference, Turku Finland.
2013 Luokka, kulttuuri, uskonto (Class, culture, religion) Sosiologipäivät (Annual Finnish Sociology Conference) Turku Finland.
2012 The End is not our business. Changing approaches on eschatology in Finnish Pentecostalism. EASR Conference, Stockholm Sweden.
2011 Social Class Study Perspective in the Study of Religion, New and Local Perspectives. EASR Conference, Budapest Hungary.
Chair, convenor etc.:
2016 Convenor & Chair of a session: Nordic Conference for the Sociology of Religion, Helsinki, Finland: “Apostasy and Leaving Religion”.
2016 Convenor & Chair of a session: European Association for the Study of Religion -Conference: “Apostasy and Leaving Religion”.
2015 Convenor & Chair of a session: International Association for the Study of Religions -Conference, Erfurt, Germany: “Apostasy and Leaving Religion”.
2014 Chair of a session, EASR Conference, Groningen, Netherlands: “Connected with God: ‘Spiritual senses’, Knowledge and Christianity”.
Teaching & lectures:
2022
2009-2022 Religious traditions in Finland
Public Presentations & lectures:
2023 Kielilläpuhuminen uskonnollisena kokemuksena. Suomen Uskonnopettajien Liiton talvipäivät, Helsinki, 4.2.2023.
2021 Ortodoksinen ristisaatot ja Korpiselkä. Impivaara-seura, 23.2.2021.
2020 Uudet kristilliset suuntaukset 1800-1900-lukujen vaihteen Suomessa. Satakunnan museo, Pori, luentosarja (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-VkEgLFYf0), 9.9.2020.
2018 (10.3.) Raja-Karjalan ortodoksiset ristisaatot pyhän jälkien rituaalina. (Carelian Processions as Ritual of Traces of Sacred.) Karjalan liiton hengelliset päivät, Lapinlahti.
2013 (30.10.) Postmoderni Primitivismi. Helluntailaisuus ja uushenkisyys vanhoissa kristillisissä traditioissa. (Postmodern Primitivism. Pentecostalism and Spirituality in Established Christian Traditions.) Lecture in the Studia Generalia -lecture series of Comparative Religion subject area of University of Turku.
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